For then you would not number my steps; you would not keep watch over my sin;
Job 10:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 If I sin, you watch me and do not acquit me of my iniquity. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If I sin, then thou markest me, And thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition If I sin, then You observe me, and You will not acquit me from my iniquity and guilt. American Standard Version (1901) If I sin, then thou markest me, And thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. Common English Bible If I sin and you observe me, you won’t consider me innocent of wrongdoing. Catholic Public Domain Version If I have sinned, and you have spared me for an hour, why do you not endure me to be clean from my iniquity? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If I have sinned and thou hast spared me for an hour: why dost thou not suffer me to be clean from my iniquity? |
For then you would not number my steps; you would not keep watch over my sin;
You say, ‘I am clean, without transgression; I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me.
If I sin, what do I do to you, you watcher of humanity? Why have you made me your target? Why have I become a burden to you?
Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be.”
I become afraid of all my suffering, for I know you will not hold me innocent.
You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance.
keeping steadfast love for the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, yet by no means clearing the guilty, but visiting the iniquity of the parents upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”
For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from my presence, nor is their iniquity concealed from my sight.
‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the parents upon the children to the third and the fourth generation.’